Ontario child-care operators that have opted in to $10-a-day care have been told their funding will remain the same for approximately another eight months, something advocates say is creating a challenge within the industry.
“We’re kind of playing a waiting game,” Carolyn Ferns, policy coordinator for Ontario Coalition For Better Childcare, told CTV News Toronto Thursday. “Meanwhile, childcare programs, they operate their budgets kind of right on a knife's edge, as one operator told me.Under the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care system, fees for parents were expected to drop to about 50 per cent of 2020 levels already.
“What does that look like? It looks like child-care programs having to close a room because they can't staff, or limit their enrollment, because they can't staff,” she said. “If it continues like this, that's just going to get worse.”A memo sent to licenced operators in September, and obtained by CTV News Toronto, says that funding approach used by the provincial government over the last year will therefor remain in place for at least the first eight months of 2024.
Officials within the Ministry of Education has said that funding allocations should be sufficient to support the full cost of reducing parent fees and improving compensation for registered early child-hood educators . Officials say the ministry is working with stakeholders and developing a new funding approach informed by data collected through a mini-survey, as well as feedback on the government’s discussion paper.
A new report by the left-leaning think tank Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives found that costs remain high within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. “Hamilton didn’t quite reach the federal targets due to previous fee reductions and there were near-misses of the 50 per cent target in some of the wealthier Toronto suburbs—Oakville, Vaughan and Markham.”
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